The Balance was captured during the war of 1812 and arrived in San Francisco in 1849 where she served as a storeship docked at the intersection of Front and Jackson. She was broken apart and buried at the end of Pacific Wharf which is now Balance Street[2]

It had been assumed that Buchanan Street was named after James Buchanan, the President of the United States who took office in March 1857. However, an 1856 map was found to have also included the street name. It is probable then that the street was actually named for the local pioneer John C. Buchanan.

Until 1995, it was named "Army Street." (It was so named because it terminated at the Army Pier in the Bay. Twenty-Sixth Street was formerly called Navy Sreet because it terminated at the Navy Pier.)[5]

Powell was a surgeon of the U. S. sloop of war Warren, which was active during the conquest of California.[17]

Reservoir Street

Named for a reservoir formerly located at Church and Market Streets, the location of Reservoir Street. Water for the reservoir came from a spring behind Sutro Reservoir, the headwaters of Laguna Honda.[18]

See Also[edit]

San Francisco Historical Street Names, an index to San Francisco's historical and lost street names (the index includes streets names that were changed as a result of city/county ordinances and street names lost or made defunct by changes in to the city's topography)

Notes[edit]

^Loewenstein, Louis (1984), Streets of San Francisco: The Origins of Street & Place Names, San Francisco: Lexikos, p. 5, ISBN0-938530-27-5